Princess Anne: Every day is a bonus after my accident

During a visit to South Africa, she said she cannot remember anything about a suspected horse incident which left her in hospital last year

Anne, who will be 75 in August, suggested that she’d had a lucky escape as she spoke for the first time about the suspected horse accident that left her concussed and badly bruised.

When asked if retirement was an option, she replied: “It really isn’t written in, no. It isn’t really an option, no, I don’t think so. You’re jolly lucky … if you can continue to be more or less compos mentis and last summer I was very close to not being. Take each day as it comes, they say.”